INTRODUCTION

Make me a Man analyses historically what has been manhood considered to be during decades. In the hypertext appear many quotations which show us the different points of view, depending on the culture and on the time. We can see that each culture has its own ideas and its own ways of understanding and achieving masculinity, such as the Sambian Tribe of New Guinea which traditionally has to follow some rituals in order to be able to become a man. Nevertheless, at some point all the cultures agreed that violence was a very effective media to achieve this masculinity. Fortunately this way of thinking has softened in many countries although there still exists a general social stereotype which constraints people’s freedom and makes them follow, although unconsciously, a specific gender pattern.